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The irony here: Some people see studies like this and think, wow, think of how much we'd lose if we didnt let in immigrants. Our economy would be smaller, we'
by TuringNYC 10y ago
The irony here:
Some people see studies like this and think, wow, think of how much we'd lose if we didnt let in immigrants. Our economy would be smaller, we'd have fewer jobs, etc.
Other people see studies like this and think, wow, only us locals should own, run, and be employed by these Billion-Dollar Startups. Bannon has explicitly noted this as a goal!
- sneak 10y agoThis sense of entitlement due to physical proximity of birthplace is completely arbitrary, ridiculous, and counterproductive. Discriminating on nationality (which most had zero choice in, and was decided for them at birth) is the same as discriminating based on skin color or biological sex. It's just standard anticompetitive in-group/out-group fear-driven nonsense.
- DarkKomunalec 10y agoBut companies use anti-competitive practices to their great advantage...
- unethical_ban 10y agoDo you argue that culture and community can never have a geographically component?
- sneak 10y agoNot at all, but using force to prohibit people from traveling and participating in any culture they wish to peacefully interact in is ridiculous.
- halomru 10y agoIt's not about birthplace. People mostly don't care where the baby was born, they care how it was raised. It's really about culture. Birthplace, nationality and skin color just happen to be good indicators for culture.
- moduspol 10y agoSome of us even see studies like this and think, wow, I wonder how many ways you can make headlines by framing arguments deceptively to support a pre-conceived world view!
- dmix 10y agoPeople will always find ways of framing it into convenient political dichotomies. Only further blurring the much grayer reality of the situation. Which is why this article even made it on to the front page in the first place and why it should be flagged if it doesn't promote rational discourse.
- masondixon 10y agoNicely said :)
- JakeAl 10y agoOthers think wow, we really need to bring citizens up to par with those we import.